Improved trawl selectivity: Effects on the ecosystem in the South Catalan Sea (NW Mediterranean)

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 355, Issue , 2008, Pages 131-147

  Coll, Marta ^a   Bahamon, Nixon ^a   Sardà, Francesc ^a   Palomera, Isabel ^a   Tudela, Sergi ^b   Suuronen, Petri ^c  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^b WWF Mediterranean Programme Office   (Spain)

^c FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Ecopath with Ecosim mediterranean Sea; Ecosystem management of fisheries; Trawl selectivity; Trophodynamic model

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CALIBRATION; DEMERSAL FISH; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FOOD WEB; MORTALITY; PREDATION RISK; TRAWLING; TROPHIC CASCADE;

CATALAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

INVERTEBRATA; LOPHIIFORMES; MICROMESISTIUS POUTASSOU; NEPHROPS NORVEGICUS; REXEA SOLANDRI;

EID: 41349123318     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07183     Document Type: Article

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